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Definitions of mandolin in various dictionaries:
noun - a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum
An instrument with a usually pear-shaped body and a fretted neck over which several pairs of strings are stretched.
noun - a stringed musical instrument
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| In Bruce Hornsby's "___ Rain" |
| Neapolitan folk songs often feature the Neapolitan type of this lutelike instrument |
| Pear-shaped? Abso-lute-ly:NIL NOMAD |
| This pear-shaped instrument, whose name means "small lute", is a bluegrass band standard |
| From the Italian for "small lute", this pear-shaped stringed instrument is widely used in bluegrass music |
| This musical instrument was derived from the lute in the early 18th century |
| This half-pear-shaped member of the Lute family is often played with tremolo strumming |
| 2 types of this Italian plucked stringed instrument are the Neopolitan & the rarer Milanese |
| Basic types of this stringed instrument include the Neapolitan or bowl-back & the flatback |
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| A small lutelike instrument with a typically pear-shaped body and a straight fretted neck, having usually four sets of paired strings tuned in unison or octaves. |
| a musical instrument resembling a lute, having paired metal strings plucked with a plectrum. It has a characteristic tremolo when sustaining long notes. |
| a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum |
| a musical instrument with four pairs of metal strings and a round back |
| a musical instrument with eight strings and a rounded back that is held in the hands or on the knee and played by moving the fingers across the strings |
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A mandolin (Italian: mandolino pronounced [mandolino]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick". It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison (8 strings), although five (10 strings) and six (12 strings) course versions also exist. The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass. * There are many styles of mandolin, but three are common, the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the carved-top mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin. The round-back has a deep bottom, constructed of strips of wood, glued together into a bowl. The carved-top or arch-top mandolin has a much shallower, arched back, and an arched topboth carved out of wood. The flat-backed mandolin uses thin sheets of wood for the body, braced on the inside for strength in a similar manner to a gui |